While the cat could not create jobs or save a home from foreclosure he was at minimum a distraction for a little while. This was at the time when so many of the local family farms were failing and people were looking for a miracle. While some in town had concerns at first about such things as allergic reactions for people with asthma, due to the size and arrangement of the library and the short exposure to the cat, everyone was assured that it should not be a problem for anyone.ĭewey came into the lives of the Spencer, Iowa, residents at time when they needed something to bring a spot of joy to them, if even for a little while. Shortly afterwards their local paper ran an article on the addition to the library, making it the first article about Dewey the cat, but not the last. With no objections or laws against a cat in a public building they were able to start introducing their new little friend to regular patrons of the library. Vicki went through all of the hierarchy of the city management to make sure that they could keep the cat in the library. (The veterinarian would say he was just an alley cat, but with the personality that he had and his love of people, I think he was Maine Coon, at least part.) Instead what they found was a half-frozen kitten, so weak it could hardly hold its head up, shaking badly, and so dirty what appeared to be a grey kitten, turned out to be a golden long hair kitten. After all, the outside drop was located in the alley across from the local middle school, and in the past they had found such surprises as snakes, squirrels and an occasional firecracker. Vicki and assistant library director Jean Hollis Clark heard a noise in the library’s drop box, taking care to open the box. From when the library director, Vicki Myron found him stuffed in the book return “on the coldest night of the year” in 1988 to his passing in 2006, he was a special cat with what seemed to be a special talent for knowing who needed him on any given day. Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World,” by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter, is the story of a cat that not only touched the lives of those who were blessed enough to be his caretakers - those that came into the library and interacted with him directly - but also those who over the years have read his story.
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